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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BAT OUT OF HELL, by MAX GOODLEY
First Line: The children scream and rush inside the house
Last Line: Her swollen breasts with wings veiled womanly.
Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Fear
First Line: The children scream and rush inside the house
Last Line: Her swollen breasts with wings veiled womanly.
Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Fear
The children scream and rush inside the house
To huddle in a group with bated breath;
And old wives cross themselves and talk of death
And vampires following the flying mouse
That haunts the twilight sky. They call their men
Who arm themselves for battle with this foe,
A ghostly battle in their minds and then
They talk of witches as they dodge and throw.
A scrap of bleeding velvet tries to wing
Its way into the darkened belfry, where
A weazened silken infant lies, a thing
Of pity calling: "Mother . . . Mother!" there.
They found her dead beside a churchyard tree,
Her swollen breasts with wings veiled womanly.
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